True Detective

[Darth Waller]

 

[batfan08]

Damn, today is just full of surprises. I can't wait. They've got big shoes to fill, but it looks fantastic, and I can't wait for the 21st!

 

[karamazov80]

Excited for it. This could be Vince Vaughn's first worthwhile gig since. . .the 1990s?





Just kidding, Dodgeball and Anchorman were pretty great. But everything else he's done since Swingers is ****.

 

[YoNoSe]

I think Vince Vaughn's face has been growing into this role for years. This will be...his masterpiece.

 

[karamazov80]

This show heralds in the artistic revival of washed up comedic has-beens of all sorts. I expect to see Carrot Top, Andrew Dice Clay, and Adam Sandler in season 3.

 

[YoNoSe]

This show heralds in the artistic revival of washed up comedic has-beens of all sorts. I expect to see Carrot Top, Andrew Dice Clay, and Adam Sandler in season 3.

It will like the end of SE7EN except he'll keep repeating, "what's in the bowl, *****?"

 

[karamazov80]

. . .and out will come one of Carrot Top's hilarious gag props.

 

[YoNoSe]

Looking at Carrot Top for an hour each week might be asking too much.

 

[karamazov80]

You'll beg for more and you know it!

 

[yodasan]

This show heralds in the artistic revival of washed up comedic has-beens of all sorts.

Hey now - Taylor Kitsch was hilarious as John Carter!

 

[Road Blaster]

this looks so awesome. i'm really excited for it but the first season will always be the best.

 

[Irvy]

Inverted crucifix in the last shot?...

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

 

[CallMeTheDoctor]

 

[Rambler]

I cannot wait for June!!!

 

[EVILFACE]

Excited for it. This could be Vince Vaughn's first worthwhile gig since. . .the 1990s?





Just kidding, Dodgeball and Anchorman were pretty great. But everything else he's done since Swingers is ****.

Just means we'll have to sit through more years of trailers for his ****** comedies.

 

[pturtle]

That trailer was awesome. This is easily my favorite show since the Sopranos, well at least season 1 was, I hope this season is great too.

 

[Sachiel]

Q&A: Creator and Showrunner Nic Pizzolatto

HBO: Is there a relationship between the story of season two and the story of season one, or any connection between the seasons?

There’s no relationship between the stories or characters, which was the result of fully committing to something new, but I do think that the seasons have a deep, close bond in sensibility and vision, a similar soul, though this is a more complex world and field of characters.


HBO: Earlier last year, you said that this season was about ‘Bad men, hard women and the secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system.’ Is that still true?

It’s not, I’m afraid. There’s definitely bad men and hard women, but no secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system. That was a comment from very early in the process, and something I ended up discarding in favor of closer character work and a more grounded crime story. The complexity of the historical conspiracy first conceived detracted from the characters and their reality, I felt, and those characters are ultimately what have to shape the world and story. So I moved away from that.


HBO: Will this season share the gothic horror sensibilities of season one?

The gothic horror suggested by Louisiana’s coastal landscape didn’t feel appropriate in this place. These new landscapes have their own unique voice and their own unsettling qualities. While there’s nothing occult in this season, I think there’s a disconcerting psychology to this world, and its characters have other kinds of uncanny reality with which to contend.


HBO: What’s that music on the trailer? Where’d it come from?

That’s one of several original songs developed with T-Bone Burnett, as original music plays a much greater role this season. The reasons for that are probably best explained by seeing the show, but these songs will be revealed in full at a later date.


HBO: It sounds like this season removes a lot of the structural qualities viewers identify with season one, like the two-person partner dynamic and the split timelines. Was that a conscious objective or did it grow out of the story being told?

Great question. I think the answer is a bit of both. We were conscious of not wanting to repeat ourselves or remake the same album in a different setting, but I try to be open to whatever structure the story and characters suggest, so I never drew a line through those things. As the characters multiplied and their individual and group complications grew, a more integrated and linear structure worked best. And there was the conviction that if we were to do something entirely new, then we shouldn’t lean on past conceits, but really build from scratch.

 

[Sachiel]

 

[EVILFACE]

Was decent.

Didnt hook me like last years.

Guess all detectives are miserable pos.